Thursday Nov 6, 2025

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Public Safety Dept. affirms compliance with rules for police officers’ retirement trust

By THE STAR STAFF

Public Safety (DSP) Secretary Gen. Arthur Garffer

Croly said Wednesday that the agency has fully complied with the development of the regulations that enable the Trust for Dignified Retirement for members of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau.

Garffer said the agency completed its responsibility in the design phase of the “Regulations on Confiscations of Illicit Gaming Machines,” and that the operational and implementation phase now falls to the Puerto Rico Police, in coordination with the Gaming Commission.

“At the DSP, we have rigorously and transparently developed the regulations that enable a dignified retirement for our police officers,” Garffer said in a written statement. “The operational phase is now in the hands of the Police and the Gaming Commission, as stipulated by law.

The official highlighted that the Police are currently training commission personnel for interventions in businesses, while the commission provides specialized training to its agents, as part of the established transition process.

Regarding the $1 million allocated by the Financial Oversight and Management Board for overtime pay, Garffer noted that the DSP’s involvement was limited to

the request for proposals process to hire a certifying firm, and that subsequent decisions fall under the jurisdiction of the entities with oversight of the operational phase.

Veterans advocate condemns vandalism of 65th Infantry Monument

“The glorious pages written in blood by Puerto Rican soldiers cannot be diminished with scribbles,” the veterans advocate said.

By THE STAR STAFF

Veterans Advocate Agustín Montañez Allman condemned vandalism that occurred in the early morning hours of Wednesday when unknown individuals defaced the 65th Infantry Monument, dedicated to the Borinqueneers, with graffiti.

“This morning, an unconscious hand, hiding in the shadows, covered the 65th Infantry Monument with graffiti,” Montañez Allman said in a written statement. “This reprehensible act, perhaps carried out with the intent to mock or amuse, seeks to diminish the courage, bravery, and fortitude of Puerto Rican veterans.”

The official said authorities will conduct the corresponding investigations to identify those responsible for the act.

“The glorious pages written in blood by Puerto Rican soldiers cannot be diminished with scribbles,” he said. “The defense of freedoms cannot be obscured with paint.”

Governor says low poll numbers won’t stop her

By THE STAR STAFF

Despite a recent poll showing massive loss of public support, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón commemorated the first anniversary of her 2024 general election victory on Wednesday with a video message thanking the people of Puerto Rico for their trust and reaffirming her commitment to lead “with responsibility and heart.”

“Today marks one year since you gave me the confidence to serve our island,” said the governor in a message shared on her social media platforms. “I want to thank you for that honor and reaffirm my commitment to continue working every day to improve Puerto Rico, to listen, and to act with responsibility and heart.”

In her address, González Colón acknowledged recent polling data published by a major media outlet, but said she received the results with serenity and emphasizing that “elections are not won with polls, but at the ballot box.”

“I’ve won and lost in polls -- you know that. But I’ve never lost an election,” she said. “The elections are three years away, and poll numbers won’t stop me.”

She drew a historical parallel to former Gov. Pedro Rosselló’s first year in office in 1993, when he faced low polling numbers but went on to win re-election in 1996 with a wider margin.

“That’s how history works -- the numbers that count are the ones decided at the polls,” she added.

Reflecting on her first year in office, González Colón outlined several accomplishments of her administration, including a reduction in crime statistics, a historic distribution of property titles, improvements to road infrastructure, and growth in economic indicators such as cement sales, construction activity and manufacturing investment

She also cited progress in streamlining government processes, job creation, and strengthening services for diverse families and vulnerable communities.

“I prefer to focus on results that impact people’s lives,” González Colón said. “We’ve reduced crime, improved roads, and boosted the island’s economy and competitiveness. I do recognize, however, that we face a challenge in communicating what the government is doing so that people can truly feel and perceive it.”

The governor said she would take that feedback as a guide to refine her administration’s efforts and improve direct communication with citizens.

González Colón concluded her message by reaffirming her commitment to transparency and grassroots engagement, noting that while there is still work to be done, she remains determined to stay connected with the people.

“There’s still a road ahead, and I will walk it directly with the people, with the same energy and commitment as always,” she said. “Together we move forward, together we build.”

“I’ve won and lost in polls -- you know that. But I’ve never lost an election,” Gov. Jenniffer González Colón said in a video address posted on her social media accounts Wednesday. “The elections are three years away, and poll numbers won’t stop me.” (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)

Water bills overflowing to $20,000 monthly at Luquillo condominium

During the meeting, Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority officials emphasized that a large number of meters have mechanical defects that contribute to water loss, an assertion that was challenged by members of the Sandy Hills condominium’s Residents Association.

By THE STAR STAFF

Since 2020, residents of the Sandy Hills condominiums in the municipality of Luquillo have been raising concerns about excessive charges on their water bills for communal use, which have exceeded $20,000 per month.

In response, Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez held a meeting earlier this week at the Capitol with residents of the housing complex and executives from the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), including Assistant Director of Large Accounts William Thompson and Gisela Reyes, manager of the same area for the PRASA Eastern Region, among others. An agreement was reached to conduct a census of water meters in the complex.

“The residents of the Sandy Hills condominiums have brought to our attention the high cost of potable water service for the common areas, with bills fluctuating between $15,000 and $20,000 per month -- a substantial increase from the approximately $4,000 they paid before the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Méndez Nuñez, who represents House District 36 (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra). “We want to find a solution, which is why an agreement was reached for the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority to conduct a census of water meters and a

study of the communal water meter usage as soon as possible to determine the reason for these costs.”

The House speaker also noted that an on-site inspection of the facilities will be coordinated with PRASA technical personnel in the coming days.

Condo residents say there are some 292 apartments in the two towers that comprise the complex, a popular residential site during vacation periods due to its proximity to Luquillo beaches and other attractions. However, PRASA indicates that its records show some 282 water meters, excluding the one in dispute. Of that number, the public corporation designated 194 meters as vacation rentals and 52 as short-term rental units.

The common areas include two cisterns, a four-bathroom system, showers and sinks. The complex’s pool is fed by a hose, rather than pumps.

During the meeting, PRASA officials also emphasized that a large number of meters have mechanical defects that contribute to water loss, an assertion that was challenged by members of the condominium’s Residents Association.

Women’s Affairs Office opens in Cidra

By THE STAR STAFF

Cidra Mayor Delvis Pagán Clavijo and Women’s Advocate

Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez inaugurated the new Women’s Affairs Office at City Hall this week. The office, which offers support and guidance to women in crisis or victims of domestic violence, is staffed by municipal

personnel and professionals from the Justice and Family division.

The office operates Monday through Friday and handles cases confidentially. The project has an initial allocation of $16,000 approved by the Office of the Women’s Advocate and aims to serve as a support center for preventing violence and connecting victims with legal, social and psychological resources.

Gender-based violence through electronic means on the rise

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s Cyber Crimes Division has received more than 500 complaints this year related to gender-based violence committed through electronic means. Authorities expect the total number of complaints to surpass the 701 cases reported in 2024.

The alarming figures were presented during the first summit aimed at addressing the challenges the island justice system faces in the age of technology and artificial intelligence. The event was spearheaded by Rep. José “Che” Pérez Cordero, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee.

“The use of artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, is rapidly increasing across all sectors of society, including criminal activity,” Pérez Cordero said. “Today, the police have laid out a troubling picture. These are significant numbers that show how criminal elements are increasingly using digital platforms to carry out their offenses.”w

The statistics were provided by Police Lt. Luis Maldonado, director of the Cyber Crimes Division. Pérez Cordero emphasized the need for legislative action and pledged to work closely with law enforcement to support efforts to curb the rise in cybercrime.

At a summit in the island Legislature, the Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s Cyber Crimes Division said it has received more than 500 complaints this year related to gender-based violence committed through electronic means, a number that is on track to surpass the 701 cases reported in 2024.

The summit, held in the Leopoldo Figueroa hearing room at the Capitol, brought together key government officials

including Insp. Gen. Ivelisse Rivera, Luis Pérez from the Office of Government Ethics, and Carlos Rivera Justiniano, legislative adviser to Gov. Jenniffer González Colón.

Also in attendance were Reps. José Aponte Hernández of the New Progressive Party, Lissie Burgos Muñiz of the Dignity Project party and Ramón Torres Cruz of the Popular Democratic Party; Sen. Ángel Toledo López, chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Government Committee; and Senate Vice President Carmelo Ríos Santiago, who co-chairs the Joint Committee for the Continuous Review of the Penal and Civil Codes alongside Pérez Cordero.

Participating agencies included the Department of Justice, Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service, Office of Courts Administration, Department of Public Safety, Institute of Forensic Sciences, Puerto Rico Bar Association, University of Puerto Rico School of Law, Civil Rights Commission, Office of Human Resources Management and Transformation, Legislative Services Office, Puerto Rico Bar Association, Office of Management and Budget, and Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority.

PIP legislators file bills to transform health model in face of current crisis

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) Secretary General Juan Dalmau Ramírez, along with the party’s delegation in the island Legislature, reaffirmed on Wednesday, through the filing of a series of legislative measures, the urgent need to fundamentally transform the current health system to guarantee the human right of wellness and a healthy life to all citizens.

“Today, we announce the filing by the PIP legislative delegation, in both the House and the Senate, of a set of measures that seek to urgently establish a Universal Health Plan that guarantees the right to health for the entire population of Puerto Rico, regardless of their socioeconomic level, and that does justice to the hundreds of thousands of people who, under insensitive governments of the NPP [New Progressive Party] and PDP [Popular Democratic Party], have been abandoned and condemned to their fate by not being able to access coverage under the current system,” Dalmau Ramírez said.

In a press conference, the PIP leaders specified that the group of three measures presented promotes, among other aspects, a transformation of the current health system through the establishment of a “National Health Insurance” with universal coverage under a single-payer model focused on the health of patients and not on the profit of insurance companies.

Through this model, they said, the aim is to reform the current remedial approach to a preventive one, utilizing health promotion services, primary disease prevention, primary health care, and effective and comprehensive intervention addressing the social determinants of health. In this way, the PIP’s legislative proposal seeks to improve the population’s quality of health while also reducing government spending.

“We are facing a crisis in the healthcare system, which for many years has suffered from serious administrative inefficiencies and poor distribution of services,” stated Rep. Denis Márquez Lebrón, the PIP minority leader in the lower chamber. “Insurance companies appropriate millions of dollars annually, while Puerto Ricans have to wait months for an appointment and pay exorbitant prices for medications and basic services. It is a practically unusable healthcare system, to the detriment of both patients and service providers. This package of measures seeks to guarantee the right to health for everyone, with a focus on prevention.”

Another important aspect of the PIP’s health proposal is the creation of the “National Health Account,” which will allow for better planning and management of health systems with the aim of making updated and informed public policy decisions that truly benefit the people.

“With this legislation, we seek to end an inhumane view of health, which provokes outrage because it subjects both patients and service providers, particularly those providers subscribed to the government plan, to the abuse and tyranny of insurers who have turned health into a business and control the provision of services according to their profit interests,” Dalmau Ramírez said.

Sen. Adrián González Costa asserted that on an island whose population is aging and where the cost of living has reached

an unsustainable level for many families, access to healthcare cannot depend on whether families have the financial resources to afford health services.

“It’s a matter of life or death, not whether you have the money or not,” he said. “That’s what our measures are about: guaranteeing basic health coverage for everyone. Health cannot have a price; it’s a right.”

Through a package of measures, the Puerto Rican Independence Party delegation in the Legislature is promoting, among other aspects, a transformation of the current health system through the establishment of a “National Health Insurance” with universal coverage under a single-payer model focused on the health of patients and not on the profits of insurance companies.

The backlash has arrived: 6 takeaways from a good night for Democrats

By REID J. EPSTEIN

Democrats, furious about President Donald Trump’s remaking of American government and society, turned out in extraordinary numbers for an off-year election to sweep virtually every competitive election on the map.

The results served as a rebuke of Trump and his Republican Party and a salve for Democrats who have not had many good nights in the past year. Next will come a fierce, yearlong fight, first in redistricting battles and then the midterm elections, for control of the House of Representatives and the fate of Trump’s agenda during the final two years of his term.

Here are six takeaways from the first major elections of the second Trump era.

Democrats finally showed some fight.

Democrats have spent the past year locked out of power in Washington, searching furiously but mostly in vain for ways to stop Trump from expanding his power.

They held protests, spoke all night in the Senate and organized “No Kings” rallies that drew millions across the country.

On Tuesday, they finally hit back in a more concrete way.

Democrats won statewide elections in Virginia, New Jersey, California and Pennsylvania. They flipped seats on Georgia’s Public Service Commission. And they were on the verge of winning a near two-thirds majority in the Virginia House of Delegates, an extraordinary sweep of battleground districts in races that serve as a plausible stand-in for how voters view both parties given the anonymous nature of most of the candidates.

In New York City, Zohran Mamdani was hovering around 50% of the vote in the mayoral race as he coasted past former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who won support from Trump and other Republicans.

When Democrats roared to victory in 2017, during Trump’s first term, it foreshadowed a blue wave in the midterms a year later. On Tuesday night, House Democratic officials were crowing that this year’s results would help them recruit strong candidates to challenge Republicans next year.

It was a bad night for Trump.

In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger won the governor’s race by focusing on Trump’s firing of federal workers and the impact of the government shutdown on her state.

In New Jersey, Rep. Mikie Sherrill finished her successful campaign by railing against Trump’s demand that a key Hudson River tunnel be “terminated.”

In New York City, Trump’s election eve endorsement of Cuomo caused Republicans to swing toward the former governor, but failed to thwart Mamdani.

And in California, voters responded to calls to save

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), the Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey, delivers remarks after her victory was announced at an election night watch party in East Brunswick, N.J., Nov. 4, 2025. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)

the nation from Trump by approving a ballot measure to redraw the state’s congressional districts to shift five of them to Democrats from Republicans.

The president was not on the ballot in any of these places, but in each one, Democrats ran against his policies and yoked their opponents to him.

After similar results in New Jersey and Virginia eight years ago, Democrats nearly ran the table in the 2018 midterm elections. Democrats are already arguing that Tuesday was a harbinger for the 2026 midterms, while Republicans claim it was a blue-state blip.

Mamdani gives Democrats a new leader.

In a year’s time, Mamdani has gone from searching for random New Yorkers to talk to him to becoming one of the biggest stars in American politics.

Now the New York City mayor-elect at 34 years old, he represents the vanguard of Democratic politics. He is an unabashed progressive and a self-described democratic socialist who is sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

He also offers a new strategic blueprint to a Democratic Party that has for a decade been defined primarily by its opposition to Trump.

Mamdani, in defeating Cuomo in both the primary and general elections, gave New York voters a clear alternative with a defined vision. He focused relentlessly on the cost of living, spoke endlessly about the prices of nearly everything and expressed an adoration for New York City that few other politicians show for the places they call home.

And he did it by blazing a creative, compelling path online, both through his own social media channels and his appearances with scores of influencers and podcasters.

Mamdani’s progressive politics may not play as well outside New York City, and Republicans have already signaled they will seek to tie the party’s candidates to a Muslim

immigrant, but Democrats running in the midterm elections are likely to copy his tactics and message discipline.

Even Democrats will shrug at a scandal.

In the final weeks of Virginia’s campaign for attorney general, it was revealed that Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee, had sent violent text messages about a political rival and had been caught driving 116 mph.

But no prominent Virginia Democrat called for him to quit the race. Jones apologized, withstood a torrent of attack ads and rode huge Democratic turnout to victory.

The post-shame era continues apace.

Such was the antipathy toward Republican candidates in Virginia that Jones, even saddled with controversy, performed better than Vice President Kamala Harris did last year in Loudoun County, a key exurb of Washington.

Jones’ political future might have a ceiling because of his scandals in this election, but for Tuesday night, at least, he is as happy as can be.

No Trump on the ballot? Advantage, Democrats. Trump drives Republican voters to the polls — but only when he is on the ballot.

Democrats have overperformed in every nonpresidential election year since 2017. Their voters are now the ones who turn out for off-year and midterm elections, while Trump’s loyal Republican base turns out in big numbers only in presidential years.

This played out this year in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, when the liberal candidate prevailed by double digits, and in a series of special elections. It was again evident Tuesday as Democrats prevailed easily in Virginia and New Jersey.

Trump will not be on the ballot in next year’s midterm elections, but it is a safe bet that Democrats will again try to make him the centerpiece of their campaigns.

Newsom helped House Democrats, and himself.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has been on a notvery-secret mission for national attention since before the 2024 presidential election.

And with a blowout victory in a ballot measure to redraw the state’s congressional map in Democrats’ favor, Newsom helped his party’s midterm chances and proved that he could turn out voters in a critical election.

In the short term, the nearly 2-to-1 margin for “yes” on California’s ballot measure may serve as fuel for Democrats in other blue states weighing their own redistricting plans. In his victory remarks, Newsom made an explicit call for other states — including ones with ambitious Democratic governors, like Colorado, Illinois and Maryland — to follow California’s lead on redistricting before the midterm elections.

Before the next presidential contest, it provides Newsom with concrete evidence of what he did to combat Trump in an era when Democratic voters are hungry for fighters. How he uses that platform remains to be seen, but it is not much of a mystery where his ambition lies.

In a speech full of hope, Mamdani celebrates a new political order

By DANA RUBINSTEIN and CLAIRE FAHY

Shortly after Zohran Mamdani was anointed the mayor-elect of New York City, he strode onto the stage of a cavernous, ornate theater, put his hand on his heart, smiled his signature smile and nodded to a socialist forebear.

“As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity,” Mamdani said.

The crowd roared its approval.

Mamdani’s speech to the faithful Tuesday night was as suffused with hope as his comefrom-behind campaign, which captivated a city and a nation and offered a youthful rebuke to the aging standard-bearers of the Democratic Party and the politics that they have embraced.

In nearly every facet of Mamdani’s identity — his ethnicity, his religion, his democratic socialism, his age, Mamdani represents change. And in his first remarks since he was declared the winner of Tuesday’s election, Mamdani, 34, shied away from none of that.

“I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older,” Mamdani said, in one of several laugh lines of the night. “I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.”

Mamdani’s nearly 25-minute speech to

In an image provided by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the aftermath of a plane crash near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.

By FRANCESCA REGALADO

At least nine people were killed when a UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday.

The crash ignited a large fire in a cluster of buildings south of the airport, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky. The airport, which was closed Tuesday night, reopened a runway

an ecstatic crowd at the Brooklyn Paramount theater was at turns defiant, arch and unabashedly hopeful.

He skewered Andrew Cuomo, the political scion he vanquished not just in the June Democratic primary for mayor, but again in Tuesday’s general election.

“My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty,” Mamdani said. “I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life. But let tonight be the final time I utter his name.”

He delivered an ode to immigrants and working-class New Yorkers, to people with “palms calloused from delivery-bike handlebars” and “knuckles scarred with kitchen burns,” to “Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas; Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses; Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.”

He nodded to the youth of his base — “the next generation of New Yorkers who refuse to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past,” and promised to deliver on an expansive, ambitious agenda that he likened to that of Fiorello LaGuardia, the beloved former mayor of New York City whose achievements were turbocharged by the New Deal.

Mamdani will not have a Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House, however. He will have Donald Trump, who in the days

State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, delivers remarks after his victory was announced during an election night watch party in Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.

(Todd Heisler/The New York Times)

preceding the election, urged New Yorkers to choose Cuomo, derided Mamdani as a “liddle Communist” and threatened to defund New York City should it elect him.

New York City’s electorate defied Trump’s threats.

And on Tuesday, Mamdani took the opportunity to address Trump directly.

“Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you,” Mamdani said. “Turn the volume up.”

He went on to describe Trump as the avatar of things that plague New York City — the “bad landlords” and “the culture of corruption” — and he argued that the city that gave birth to Trump should rightly be the place that demonstrates to the world how to take him on.

“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,” Mamdani said. “And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.”

As he delivered remarks in a speech sprinkled with Arabic, his supporters, many draped in the colors of his campaign, shrieked and shouted his promises back to him.

“Together, New York, we’re going to freeze the …”

“Rent!” the crowd responded.

“Together, New York, we’re going to make buses fast and …”

“Free!” the crowd intoned.

“Together, New York, we’re going to deliver universal …”

“Child care!” the crowd said.

And while he acknowledged that his goals were ambitious, Mamdani said he had every intention of achieving them.

“Our greatness will be anything but abstract,” he said.

What we know about the UPS plane crash in Louisville

Wednesday morning. Officials were examining the site of the crash and warned that the death toll could rise.

Here’s what we know about the crash:

The plane crashed as it was taking off.

Three UPS crew members were on the MD-11 plane as it departed for Honolulu around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said.

The jet climbed to just 175 feet before swiftly descending and crashing into two businesses about 3 miles south of the airport, Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky said.

The plane had been loaded with 38,000 gallons of fuel, and one of the businesses it hit was a petroleum recycling facility, Beshear said.

Some storage tanks containing propane and oil at the crash site ruptured, but the fire was almost entirely contained, Brian O’Neill, chief of the Louisville Fire Department, said Tuesday.

There was no hazardous cargo on the plane, Mayor Craig Greenberg of Louisville said Tuesday night. Beshear said Wednesday that he was declaring a state of emergency to

allow the state to quickly deploy resources to the crash scene.

A team from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived in Louisville on Wednesday, beginning the process of determining what caused the crash.

At least nine people were killed.

Authorities said that nine people had died from the crash. The identities of the victims were not immediately released. UPS said in a statement Tuesday that it had not confirmed any injuries or fatalities among its crew.

The plane hit buildings that housed two businesses, a waste company and Grade A Auto Parts. Three employees of Grade A were still missing, said Joey Garber, its chief operating officer.

Fifteen victims were brought to hospitals that are part of the University of Louisville, and were treated for burns, shrapnel wounds and other injuries, Jason W. Smith, chief executive of the university health system, said Wednesday. Thirteen patients were discharged, but two were still in critical condition Wednesday, he said.

Louisville is the main air hub for UPS.

The crash disrupted cargo operations for UPS, which has its largest air cargo hub, called Worldport, in Louisville. In a statement, UPS called the city the home of its airline and thousands of employees, and said that package sorting operations there would be halted overnight.

The Louisville airport was the world’s fifth busiest for cargo traffic last year, behind airports in Hong Kong; Shanghai; Memphis, Tennessee; and Anchorage, Alaska, according to Airports Council International, an industry lobbying group.

The airport reopened Wednesday morning, but officials said that delays and cancellations were likely. A shelter-in-place order that was issued Tuesday evening was reduced to a quarter-mile radius around the airport. The local school district said classes would be canceled Wednesday.

Before Wednesday, the most recent crash involving a UPS plane happened in 2013, when a jet that departed from Louisville crashed in Birmingham, Alabama, killing its two pilots.

Do dumb ideas ever die?

By BRET STEPHENS

In one of the great scenes of one of the great gangster movies, Mike Newell’s “Donnie Brasco,” an aging Mafioso named Lefty Ruggiero paces a hospital corridor while his son fights for his life following a drug overdose.

“Twenty-eight years, you can read it on his birth certificate: Bellevue Hospital,” Lefty, played by Al Pacino, tells Donnie, played by Johnny Depp, about his comatose son. “Now he’s back, in there, and I’m out here, worried to my death. And he’s asleep in there, same as 28 years ago, with the same expression. He’s made no progress.”

It’s a line that could apply just as well to America’s policy debates.

Twenty-eight years ago — that was 1997, when “Donnie Brasco” came out — we thought we had made progress, at least when it came to answering some of the larger questions that had roiled 20th-century politics.

Trade protectionism? The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and beggar-thy-neighbor policies of the 1930s showed us the worldwide economic ruin to which that could lead. Government stakes in private enterprise, like the Trump administration’s recent equity stake in Intel? The record of state investment in, or control of, private enterprises, from Solyndra to Sematech (not to mention Alitalia or “Such a Bad Experience Never Again” Sabena), is mostly a story of financial disappointment, taxpayer bailouts, managerial incompetence, political interference and cronyism.

America first? The slogan of Charles Lindbergh and other pre-World War II isolationists should have been buried forever on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, it emerged from its grave some 75 years later.

But it isn’t just the Trump administration that is reawakening the moral and intellectual zombies of the past. Everywhere one looks there are policy necromancers.

The platform of the national Democratic Socialists of America calls for a 32-hour workweek “with no reduction in pay or benefits”; “free public universal child care and pre-K”; “college for all”; the cancellation of “all student-loan debt”; “universal rent control”; “massive public investment to transition away from fossil fuels”; “guaranteed support for workers in the fossil fuel industry,” and “expansive paid

family leave.” Not only would American workers stand to benefit, but so would everybody else, since the DSA wants to offer these benefits to anyone who wishes to come to United States through an open-borders policy.

How would the DSA pay for all this? By soaking the rich, along with “for-profit corporations, large inheritances, and private colleges and universities.” Why did nobody think of this before?

Oh, wait — many did. “Bolivarian socialism,” welcomed by the Jeremy Corbyns of the world, took Venezuela from being South America’s richest country to a humanitarian catastrophe. Sweden attempted a form of socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, only to reverse course after it experienced massive capital flight and a financial crisis during which interest rates hit 75%. France’s Socialist government imposed a 75% tax on earnings more than 1 million euros in 2012; it dropped the tax two years later as the wealthy packed their bags. Britain’s National Health Service, whose advocates chronically complain is “underfunded,” is in a state of perpetual crisis even as health care, according to the BBC, gobbles up roughly one-third of government spending.

“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money,” Margaret Thatcher once observed. To put it another way, you can’t abolish billionaires, as Zohran Mamdani, the DSA’s poster child, would like, and still expect them to keep footing your bills.

If socialism is foolish, there’s something worse: the “socialism of fools,” antisemitism, now rapidly ascendant on the MAGA right.

Consider last week’s interview of Nick Fuentes, the white supremacist, by Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host turned podcaster. Among Fuentes’ core beliefs: “I think the Holocaust is exaggerated. I don’t hate Hitler. I think there’s a Jewish conspiracy. I believe in race realism.”

As for Carlson, he lobbed softball questions at Fuentes, found much to agree on when it came to their shared hatred for Christian supporters of Israel, and then draped his arm around his guest for a cuddly photograph. And even that wasn’t quite as repulsive as the passionate defense of Carlson mounted by Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation. As Roberts saw it, Carlson had done nothing wrong in making nice with Fuentes. Rather, it was “the globalist class” and their “mouthpieces in Washington” who were the real bad guys.

“Globalist class”? Whoever could Roberts have in mind?

Roberts later tried to distance himself from Fuentes without reference to Carlson’s role in boosting and promoting him — a case, as it were, of trying to have your Jew and eat him, too. But the deeper issue with the Heritage Foundation and its allies isn’t that they have an antisemitism problem. It’s that they have a surrender problem — surrender to any dreadful idea, so long as it has a critical mass of supporters on the ever-growing fringe.

As Al Pacino’s Lefty would say: “No progress.”

A photo provided by the National Photo Company Collection/Library of Congress shows from left, Rep. Willis Hawley (R-Ore.) and Sen. Reed Smoot (R-Utah. (National Photo Company Collection/Library of Congress via The New York Times)

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Municipio de Caguas consolida su compromiso con la salud mental y el bienestar de sus ciudadanos

CAGUAS – Con un mensaje claro de solidaridad, resiliencia y acción comunitaria, el Municipio Autónomo de Caguas celebró el Primer Foro de Salud Mental y Bienestar, un evento que reunió a profesionales de la salud, académicos, líderes comunitarios, organizaciones sin fines de lucro y ciudadanos comprometidos con transformar la manera en que Puerto Rico atiende la salud emocional. Durante el foro, celebrado en el Centro de Bellas Artes de Caguas, el alcalde William Miranda Torres, reafirmó su compromiso con una política pública que coloque el bienestar integral al centro de las prioridades municipales.

“En Caguas, creemos que el bienestar emocional es un pilar esencial del desarrollo humano y comunitario. Hemos vivido años de huracanes, terremotos, pandemia, pérdidas y duelos colectivos. Sin embargo, también hemos sido testigos de una fuerza resiliente que nos define como pueblo. Por eso, como municipio, asumimos la responsabilidad de construir ecosistemas de cuidado que fortalezcan la salud mental, promuevan la prevención y afiancen el bienestar colectivo. Gobernamos con sensibilidad y creemos en la participación ciudadana como fuerza transformadora”, destacó.

Durante el foro se presentaron diversas ponencias, que abordaron la salud mental desde perspectivas complementarias.

La Dra. Carmen E. Albizu-García, de la Escuela Graduada de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, se enfocó en los determinantes estructurales de la salud y su impacto sobre las disparidades sociales y de salud que sufren personas usuarias de drogas. En el mismo, explicó cómo las leyes, normas y políticas públicas pueden perpetuar desigualdades y afectar la salud de comunidades marginadas, haciendo un llamado a sustituir la criminalización por estrategias de prevención, reducción de daños y atención digna y basada en evidencia científica.

Por su parte, el Dr. Domingo J. Marqués-Reyes, Catedrático de la Universidad Albizu, ofreció la conferencia “El que

siembra vientos cosecha tempestades: el impacto de María en la salud mental en Puerto Rico”, en la que analizó las secuelas psicológicas del huracán María y otros desastres naturales. El Dr. Marqués enfatizó la necesidad de fortalecer la preparación y la resiliencia emocional de las comunidades, así como de garantizar la continuidad de los servicios de salud mental durante emergencias, especialmente para niños, adultos mayores y personas desplazadas.

Por el Municipio de Caguas, la Dra. Aida Ivette González Santiago, Secretaria de Desarrollo Humano, presentó “Ecosistema Criollo de Bienestar Integral: reconstruyendo vínculos, fortaleciendo comunidades”. Su ponencia destacó cómo las experiencias del huracán María y la pandemia transformaron la manera en que el municipio concibe el bienestar. Explicó que Caguas ha tejido un modelo basado en la colaboración interinstitucional, la participación ciudadana y la integración de la cultura, el deporte y la recreación como motores de salud emocional.

El Primer Foro de Salud Mental y Bienestar es parte de una estrategia para promover la educación emocional, reducir el estigma, ampliar el acceso a servicios y fomentar una cultura de prevención y apoyo mutuo.

“Como Alcalde de esta gran ciudad, el bienestar de mi gente es lo principal. Por eso, continuaremos desarrollando iniciativas para discutir estos temas, prevengan el sinhogarismo, el uso problemático de sustancias y promuevan el bienestar emocional de nuestra gente. Porque una ciudad que cuida, que escucha y que actúa, es una ciudad que protege la vida”, concluyó diciendo Miranda Torres.

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Jack DeJohnette: 7 essential recordings

By KEN MICALLEF

Jack DeJohnette, an early member of Chicago’s experimental collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), developed an adaptable style that shaped his career as one of jazz’s great instrumentalists.

Originally a pianist, DeJohnette, who died Oct. 26 at 83, gained recognition in the mid-1960s for fluid, expansive drumming for saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd. By the late 1960s, DeJohnette brought flammable playing to Miles Davis’ so-called Lost Quintet, a live ensemble that was never captured on record. This role cemented his drumming style for years, showcasing his ability to blend rock and funk rhythms with exploratory, ignitable jazz.

His first six solo albums revealed a fully formed artistic vision, both as a composer and drummer, embracing the 1970s spirit of experimentation and undiluted improvisation. As the de facto house drummer for two stylistically contrasting jazz labels, ECM and CTI, DeJohnette’s seemingly ceaseless creativity and seamless command of funk and jazz made him one of the most sought-after drummers for both live performances and studio sessions.

Starting in 1976, DeJohnette cemented his role as an ECM bandleader, releasing 12 albums that featured all-star lineups and a visceral blend of harmonically and rhythmically forward-thinking jazz. While playing with the popular Keith Jarrett Trio, later known as the Standards Trio, DeJohnette pursued an independent artistic path, focusing on organic world music released on his own Golden Beams label.

DeJohnette’s late-career resurgence included a 2013 AACM reunion on “Made in Chicago,” the 2015 trio session “In Movement” with Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison, the solo piano reflection “Return” and a quartet album inspired by his upstate New York home, “Hudson.”

Here are seven essential examples of his 50-plus years of recorded work.

‘Demon’s Dance’ (1970)

The title track to alto saxophonist Jackie McLean’s album “Demon’s Dance” gives full berth to DeJohnette’s practically gleeful ride-cymbal beat. His hi-hat, bass drum and toms fuse together for rhythmic permutations that combine the elegance of Tony Williams with the fire of Elvin Jones, each variation a masterstroke of time and tension. (Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.)

‘Lungs’ (1975)

In 12 minutes of open-ended improvisation over the briefest of melodies, DeJohnette cajoles keyboardist Jan Hammer and guitarist John Abercrombie on Abercrombie’s 1975 release, “Timeless.” The mood is volatile and the tempo lightning fast as DeJohnette draws on a well of power, imagination and blistering technical skill to drive the track to memorable heights. When it collapses into ambient tones and shapes, DeJohnette caresses the cymbals, snare drum and tom toms for a potent lesson in overdrive, exhaustion and release — colorful percussive commentary. (Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.)

‘Maya’ (1981)

The opening track of “To Be Continued” unfolds like a

celestial dance. Miroslav Vitous’ bass plunges into the abyss, Terje Rypdal’s guitar ascends into the ether and DeJohnette — equal parts navigator, shaman and engineer — drives the music with rubato flurries of cymbals, thunderous rolls and full-kit incantations, transforming the performance into a transcendent invocation. (Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.)

‘Nothing Personal’ (1987)

Saxophonist Michael Brecker’s 1987 self-titled LP assembled an A-list of jazz royalty: Charlie Haden, Kenny Kirkland and Pat Metheny. Their version of the Don Grolnick composition “Nothing Personal” opens as a musical game of hideand-seek, with the musicians stating the slippery melody. DeJohnette’s beautifully recorded drums and cymbals run routes around the players, evoking a caffeinated cat destroying furniture. Though he lays low for the solo introductions, he soon ratchets the intensity to astounding peaks — delivering full-set punctuations, shimmering cymbal glissandos and heated snare and bass drum combinations that explode and collapse. (Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.)

‘Games’ (1988)

Bassist Dave Holland’s 1988 trio release, “Triplicate,” with DeJohnette and alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, showcases the drummer’s ability to craft a languid swing pulse laced with evocative jabs and punches. When DeJohnette rolls forcefully around his drum set during rests, the notes explode from left to right and back again, cymbals splashing, snare drum cracking, tom fills ricocheting, like a roller coaster. (Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.)

‘Dancing’ (1990)

Playing the cymbals as only he could, in his practically pointillist style, DeJohnette makes his instrument and this song float, shimmer and sway, as guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Herbie Hancock further extend its cerebral but meaty mood. One of seven selections from DeJohnette’s 1990 release, “Parallel Realities,” “Dancing” generates heat while spreading the groove like a fast-moving mushroom cloud. (Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.)

‘If’ (2007)

Trio Beyond, a group featuring DeJohnette, guitarist John Scofield and organist Larry Goldings, was a Tony Williams tribute band of sorts. On “If,” DeJohnette lays down a sizzling medium-tempo hard-swinging rhythm that both supports and challenges the soloists. DeJohnette’s ability to extract a world of color, drive and sense of musical skirmish from a single cymbal is one of his trademarks — and it’s on display in prime form here. (Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.)

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US services activity hits 8-month high; employment remains weak

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U.S. services sector activity increased to an eight-month high in October as new orders grew solidly, but subdued employment pointed to lackluster labor market conditions against the backdrop of economic uncertainty stemming from tariffs.

Comments from businesses in the Institute for Supply Management survey released on Wednesday were mixed. Some viewed activity as flat while the import duties and the ongoing shutdown of the federal government were headaches for others. But some companies struck an optimistic note, reporting business was solid or picking up.

At face value, the survey would suggest steady to strong eco-

The ISM said its nonmanufacturing purchasing managers index rose to 52.4 last month, the highest reading since February, from 50.0 in September. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the services PMI would climb to 50.8. The services sector accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.

The PMI is well above the 48.6 level that the ISM says indicates an expansion of the overall economy.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the government shutdown, now in its 36th day, could slice between 1.0 and 2.0 percentage points off gross domestic product in the fourth quarter. The CBO estimated most of the decline in GDP eventually would be recovered, but projected between $7 billion and $14 billion would not be.

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Eleven industries including retail trade, utilities, transportation and warehousing as well as professional, scientific and technical services reported growth in October. Among the six reporting contraction were finance and insurance, public administration and construction.

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nomic activity at the start of the fourth quarter. But the longest U.S. government shutdown in history has caused a blackout of official data, obscuring the economic outlook.

“The survey is more evidence of a disconnect between positive economic growth and meager job growth,” said Bill Adams, chief economist at Comerica Bank.

Some finance and insurance providers viewed activity as “generally” flat and said they were “closely monitoring effects of the new tariff announcement.” Import duties were described as continuing to “cause disruption in contracts and contracting, driving up pricing on goods” by some utilities firms.

But some retailers reported business was “very strong” with “no supply chain or logistical issues.” Transportation and warehousing companies said “general business has been steady, with minimum fluctuation.”

The ISM survey’s measure of new orders received by services businesses increased to 56.2 last month from 50.4 in September. But backlog orders plunged while exports remained depressed.

Weak export orders mirrored the findings in the ISM manufacturing survey on Monday, which noted “ongoing trade friction.” President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have caused tensions with trade partners, including China and Canada.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments on the legality of Trump’s import duties. Trump has defended the tariffs as necessary to protect domestic manufacturing.

Prices paid by services businesses for inputs also picked up last month. The survey’s measure of prices paid by businesses inched up to 70.0 from 69.4 in September.

Economists said the elevated reading supported the Federal Reserve’s caution about cutting interest rates again next month, especially given the dearth of data. The U.S. central bank lowered its benchmark overnight interest rate by 25 basis points to the 3.75%4.00% range last month.

Dozens killed after Typhoon Kalmaegi brings flooding to central Philippines

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DEPARTAMENTO DE DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO Y COMERCIO Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos

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Para conocimiento del público en general y de conformidad con las disposiciones del Artículo 8.6 de la Ley 161-2009, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley para la Reforma del Proceso de Permisos de Puerto Rico”, la Ley Núm. 38 -2017, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley de Procedimiento Administrativo Uniforme del Gobierno de Puerto Rico”, el Reglamento Conjunto para la Evaluación y Expedición de Permisos relacionados al Desarrollo, Uso de Terrenos y Operación de Negocios , en adelante Reglamento Conjunto y cualquier otra disposición de ley aplicable, se informa que la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (“OGPe”) celebrará vista pública para el caso que se describe a continuación:

Caso Núm. 2023-520353-CUB-010656

Proyecto/Peticionario: Ing. Henry Contreras Silverio

Dueño de la propiedad: Asociación Puertorriqueña del Sur de Adventistas del Séptico Día, Repr. Sr. Lionel Escóbales Rosa

Calificación: R-I (Residencial Intermedio, 99%), VIAL (1%)

Dirección de la acción propuesta:: Carr. 718, Km. 0.6, Avenida Felix Rios Bo. Pasto, Aibonito, PR 00705

Cualquier interesado en acceder y participar en la Vista Pública Virtual puede a través de: https://www.permisos.ddec.pr.gov/fuentesde-informacion (Sección de Vistas Públicas) o a través del siguiente QR Code:

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En la vista del caso de referencia se interesa discutir, pero sin limitarse a: solicitud de consulta de ubicación consistente en un proyecto de “construcción de una iglesia”. La solicitud se evaluará a tenor, pero sin limitarse, a lo establecido en la Regla 6.1.3, Distrito Residencial Intermedio, del Reglamento Conjunto y sus disposiciones sobre uso permitidos y la variación en uso, Regla 6.3.1. La parte proponente tendrá que justificar su solicitud. Se convoca e invita al público en general a comparecer y participar a la vista pública a celebrarse mediante el método alterno (“virtual”), con acceso al público general, además de las partes reconocidas. Los procedimientos para la celebración de la vista serán los establecidos en las secciones 2.1.10.7 a 2.1.10.15 del Reglamento Conjunto. Si una parte debidamente citada no participa o comparece a la conferencia con antelación a la vista, a la vista pública o a cualquier otra etapa durante el procedimiento adjudicativo, el funcionario que presida la misma podrá declararla en rebeldía, multarla y continuar el procedimiento sin su participación, pero notificará por escrito a dicha parte su determinación según la Regla 2.1.7 (Notificaciones), los fundamentos para la misma, el recurso de revisión disponible y el plazo para ejercerlo Se advierte que las partes, incluyendo corporaciones y sociedades, podrán, pero no están obligadas a, comparecer asistidas por abogado. Salvo justa causa, la vista no podrá ser transferida. Cualquier solicitud de transferencia de vista tendrá un cargo de $100.00, y deberá ser presentada con no menos de cinco (5) días de antelación a la fecha de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Información (“Single Business Portal”) de la OGPe, expresando las razones que justifican la solicitud. Deberá, además, cubrir los costos que conlleve la notificación de la transferencia y anunciar el nuevo señalamiento mediante la publicación de un nuevo aviso de prensa. El peticionario de la transferencia de la vista notificará y enviará copia de la solicitud simultáneamente a las otras partes ya reconocidas en el proceso y certificará el cumplimiento con lo aquí expuesto en la propia solicitud de trasferencia. El Reglamento Conjunto faculta al Oficial Examinador a imponer una multa de $500.00 a toda persona que observe una conducta irrespetuosa durante la vista, o que intencionalmente interrumpa o dilate los procedimientos sin causa justificada. Cualquier persona podrá requerir examinar el expediente o solicitar copia del mismo mediante solicitud (SCE) a través del Single Business Portal en la página https://sbp.ogpe.pr.gov/ o en cualquier oficina de la OGPe. Podrá, además, haciendo referencia al número de solicitud, presentar por escrito sus comentarios a través de notificaciones_ogpe@ddec.pr.gov o a PO Box 41179, San Juan, PR 00940-1179 en cualquier momento previo a la fecha de la vista. El Oficial Examinador, motu proprio o a solicitud de parte, podrá conceder un término adicional para someter comentarios, que en ningún caso excederá de diez (10) días desde que concluya la vista

1Reglamento Núm. 9473 del 16 de junio de 2023.

By JASON GUTIÉRREZ, AIE BALAGTAS SEE and JIAWEI WANG

At least 85 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of others forced to flee their homes in the central Philippines, authorities said, after Typhoon Kalmaegi brought destructive winds and devastating flooding to a region still reeling from a deadly earthquake.

Many of the victims had drowned, while some died from fallen trees, electrocution and landslide, according to the national Office of Civil Defense. More than 380,000 people had been displaced, many evacuating before Kalmaegi made landfall, according to the agency.

The extent of casualties and damage caused by the storm, known locally as Tino, was slowly emerging Wednesday, the day after the typhoon ripped through the area. Dozens were still missing and at least 17 had been injured, authorities said. By Wednesday morning, flooding in some areas had receded.

But videos posted on social media Tuesday and verified by The New York Times showed streets on the island of Cebu overwhelmed by floodwaters and people trying to get to dry ground. One clip captured a man in a red safety vest heading down a street on paddle board to check on others.

“We were marooned inside our house and rushed to the second floor,” Monique Haeyn Rosario, 28, who lives with her toddler, her parents and other family near the Butuanon River in Cebu City, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. She said the river’s level started rising quickly around 5 a.m. Tuesday. Floodwaters outside her house were as high as 10 feet, she estimated.

“The authorities have reached us and are rushing aid, but I am appealing for food, and, most importantly, water and dry clothes and medicines,” she said.

The national government said it had distributed aid, including food, worth 6 million Philippine pesos, about $100,000. The military and coast guard were helping to clear debris and evacuate residents from flooded areas.

One air force helicopter en route to assess the damage

A shipping container blocked a road after it was swept away by the floods brought by Typhoon Kalmaegi in Mandaue City, Cebu province on Wednesday.

crashed in southern Agusan del Sur province Tuesday afternoon, the military said. The crew of five died in the accident. In Cebu province, officials said that more than 100,000 people were sheltering in evacuation centers.

According to the Office of Civil Defense, 49 deaths were recorded in Cebu. Fatalities were also reported in Bohol, Capiz and Leyte provinces, the Negros Island Region as well as the Eastern and Western Visayas.

Kalmaegi hit the Philippines just over a month after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake killed dozens in northern Cebu. It made landfall eight times as it cut a deadly swath across the central Philippines, an archipelago nation that lies in the Pacific typhoon belt.

After wrecking havoc on the Visayas islands, it moved west and was in the South China Sea on Wednesday morning, headed toward Vietnam.

Trump weighs options, and risks, for attacks on Venezuela

By DAVID E. SANGER, TYLER PAGER, HELENE COOPER, ERIC SCHMITT and DEVLIN BARRETT

The Trump administration has developed a range of options for military action in Venezuela, including direct attacks on military units that protect President Nicolás Maduro and moves to seize control of the country’s oil fields, according to multiple U.S. officials.

President Donald Trump has yet to make a decision about how or even whether to proceed. Officials said he was reluctant to approve operations that may place U.S. troops at risk or could turn into an embarrassing failure. But many of his senior advisers are pressing for one of the most aggressive options: ousting Maduro from power.

Trump’s aides have asked the Justice Department for additional guidance that could provide a legal basis for any military action beyond the current campaign of striking boats that the administration says are trafficking narcotics, without providing evidence. Such guidance could include a legal rationale for targeting Maduro without creating the need for congressional authorization for the use of military force, much less a declaration of war.

While the guidance is still being drafted, some administration officials expect it will argue that Maduro and his top security officials are central figures in the Cartel de los Soles, which the administration has designated as a narco-terrorist group. The Justice Department is expected to contend that designation makes Maduro a legitimate target despite long-standing

U.S. legal prohibitions on assassinating national leaders.

The Justice Department declined to comment. But the move to justify targeting Maduro would constitute another effort by the administration to stretch its legal authorities. It has already engaged in targeted killings of suspected drug smugglers who, until September, were pursued and arrested at sea rather than killed by drone strikes. Any effort to remove Maduro would place the administration under further scrutiny over whatever legal rationale it does offer, given the hazy mix of reasons it has presented so far for confronting Maduro. Among them are drug trafficking, the need for U.S. access to oil and Trump’s claims that the Venezuelan government released prisoners into the United States.

Trump has issued a series of contradictory public messages about his intentions, and the goals and justification for any future military action. He has said in recent weeks that the attacks on speedboats in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific — including another strike on Tuesday — that have killed at least 67 people would be expanded to land attacks. But that has not happened.

When asked by CBS News whether the United States is headed to war with Venezuela, Trump said Sunday, “I doubt it. I don’t think so, but they’ve been treating us very badly, not only on drugs.” He repeated his unsupported allegation that Maduro opened his prisons and mental institutions and sent Tren de Aragua gang members to the United States, a charge Trump has made since his campaign for the presidency last year.

Asked whether Maduro’s days as president of Venezuela were numbered, he added, “I think so, yeah.”

The support for the more aggressive options is coming from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also the acting national security adviser, and Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser. According to several U.S. officials, they have privately said they believe Maduro should be forced out.

Trump has repeatedly expressed reservations, aides say, in part because of a fear that the operation could fail. Trump is in no rush to make a decision and has repeatedly asked about what the United States could get in return, with a specific focus on extracting some of the value of Venezuela’s oil for the United States.

“President Trump has been clear in his message to Maduro: Stop sending drugs and criminals to our country,” Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement. “The president has made clear that he will continue to strike narco-terrorists trafficking illicit narcotics — anything else is speculation and should be treated as such.”

Trump will most likely not be forced to

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), sails in the Ionian Sea, July 29, 2025. The carrier will arrive in the Caribbean in mid November. President Donald Trump has yet to decide on a course of action regarding Venezuela, but his advisers are pressing a range of objectives to try to justify ousting President Nicolás Maduro. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maxwell Orlosky via The New York Times)

decide at least until the Gerald R. Ford, the U.S.’ largest and newest aircraft carrier, arrives in the Caribbean sometime in the middle of this month. The Ford carries about 5,000 sailors and has more than 75 attack, surveillance and support aircraft, including F/A-18 fighters.

There has been a steady buildup of U.S. troops in the region since late August. Even before the carrier arrives, there are about 10,000 American military personnel in the Caribbean, roughly half on warships and half on bases in Puerto Rico.

The Pentagon has in recent weeks also dispatched B-52 and B-1 bombers from bases in Louisiana and Texas to fly missions off the coast of Venezuela in what military officials call a show of force. B-52s can carry dozens of precision-guided bombs, and B-1s can carry up to 75,000 pounds of guided and unguided munitions, the largest nonnuclear payload of any aircraft in the Air Force arsenal.

And the Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, which conducted extensive counterterrorism helicopter operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, recently carried out what the Pentagon said were training exercises off the Venezuelan coast.

The military buildup has been so rapid and so public that it appears to be part of a psychological pressure campaign on Maduro. In fact, Trump has talked openly about his decision to issue a “finding” that permits the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela — the kind of operation presidents almost never discuss in advance.

Should Trump elect to order the action inside Venezuela, it would amount to a considerable military, legal and political risk. For

ficials say. Critics of such an approach warn that it could have the opposite effect, of rallying support around the embattled leader.

A second approach envisions the United States sending Special Operations forces, such as the Army’s Delta Force or the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, to try to capture or kill Maduro. Under this option, the Trump administration would seek to sidestep prohibitions against assassinating foreign leaders by arguing that Maduro is, first and foremost, the head of a narco-terrorist gang, an extension of the arguments used to justify the U.S. airstrikes on boats the administration says are smuggling drugs.

The State Department has a $50 million reward for Maduro’s arrest or conviction — up from the $25 million offered in the last days of the Biden administration. The Trump administration may also argue that because Maduro suppressed opposition and worked to rig elections, he is not the legitimate leader of the country. The Biden administration refused to recognize him as Venezuela’s president after he declared victory last year.

all the risks Trump took in authorizing America’s bombing of three nuclear-related sites in Iran in June, it did not involve an effort to overthrow or replace the Iranian government.

If Trump goes that route, there is no assurance that he would succeed or that he could guarantee that a new government would arise friendlier to the United States. Aides say that far more planning has gone into striking at the Maduro government than on what it would take to govern Venezuela should the operation succeed.

And some of Trump’s most loyal political backers have been warning against striking at Maduro, reminding the president he was elected to end “forever wars,” not incite new ones.

A military plan in three parts

Trump’s authorization for the CIA to operate inside Venezuela’s borders could enable the agency to conduct a variety of activities, from information operations to building opposition to Maduro to actively sabotaging his government — and even seizing the leader himself. But national security officials say that if such operations could really pry Maduro from power, he would have been gone years ago. That is why the White House is considering military action, and the proposals on the table come in three broad varieties.

The first option would involve airstrikes against military facilities, some of which might be involved in facilitating drug trafficking, with the aim of collapsing Venezuelan military support for Maduro. If Maduro believed he was no longer protected, he might seek to flee — or, in moving around the country, make himself more vulnerable to capture, of-

A third option involves a much more complicated plan to send U.S. counterterrorism forces to seize control of airfields and at least some of Venezuela’s oil fields and infrastructure.

These last two options carry much greater risks to American commandos on the ground — not to mention civilians — especially if they were targeting Maduro in an urban setting like Caracas, the country’s capital.

Trump has been reluctant to consider attacks that could put U.S. troops at risk. As a result, many of the plans under development employ naval drones and long-range weapons, options that may prove more viable once the Ford and other ships are in place.

Seeking a legal rationale

As Trump’s aides push for the most aggressive military option, lawyers at the Justice Department are working to develop a legal analysis to justify the full range of military options that are being developed.

White House officials have said they want an updated legal analysis before taking any additional steps, and administration lawyers told Congress last week that the president did not need congressional approval for his lethal military strikes on boats.

T. Elliot Gaiser, who leads the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, told Congress that the administration did not think the boatstrike operation rose to the kind of “hostilities” covered by a 1973 law called the War Powers Resolution, which limits the president from conducting military operations for longer than 60 days without congressional approval. But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have raised concerns about the strikes and have demanded more information from the administration.

AES Puerto Rico faces payment default after failing to implement cash sweep mechanism

By THE STAR STAFF

AES Puerto Rico is in payment default on its long-term debt and preferred shares after failing to activate a required cash sweep mechanism -- an automatic process that would have redirected excess operational cash toward debt repayment.

The information is contained in a quarterly report submitted Tuesday to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

AES Puerto Rico has undergone a significant financial restructuring following its failure to meet debt obligations on its Series A Bond Loans. On June 1, 2023, the global energy company defaulted on principal and interest payments for its 6.625% Series A Bond Loans due in 2026, citing insufficient funds. In response, the company entered into forbearance and standstill agreements with its noteholders in

As part of the restructuring, noteholders also extended a $23 million bridge loan due March 2026, with interest set at prime plus 4%. AES Puerto Rico is obligated to make mandatory prepayments on this loan, the senior secured bonds, and the preferred shares using excess operational cash, as defined in the loan agreements.

default of $144 million due to failure to implement the required cash sweep mechanism. Other subsidiaries, including AES Ilumina in Puerto Rico, ES Jordan Solar, and Mount Olive Solar, are in technical default for covenant violations, totaling $27 million.

July 2023.

A formal restructuring agreement was reached on March 5, 2024. Under the deal, AES Puerto Rico exchanged $156 million in defaulted bonds, including interest, for $112 million in senior secured bonds due January 2028 and

$44 million in preferred shares. The preferred shares carry a 3.125% interest rate and include an option allowing AES to convert them into 99.9% of AES Puerto Rico’s ordinary shares between Dec. 30 of this year and Dec. 30, 2027, or settle them in cash.

The transaction was classified as a troubled debt restructuring under accounting standard ASC 470-60, indicating that AES Puerto Rico was experiencing financial hardship and that creditors made concessions. No gain was recorded from the restructuring.

As of Sept. 30 of this year, the cash settlement of the preferred shares remains contingent, depending on whether AES exercises its conversion option. In addition to the restructuring, AES Puerto Rico faces a payment

Despite those defaults, AES Corp. has not triggered cross-default clauses in its recourse debt agreements, which would apply only if a defaulting subsidiary contributes 20% or more of the parent company’s cash distributions and has over $200 million in outstanding principal.

Restricted cash held by AES subsidiaries totaled $791 million as of Sept. 30 of this year, with $911 million in net assets restricted from transfer to the parent company due to lender and regulatory provisions.

AES Puerto Rico is currently working with noteholders to resolve its payment default.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA JACQUELINE SANTIAGO

TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO JAQUELINE

SANTIAGO SANTIAGO (SUCESION DE NARCISO SANTIAGO JR, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO NARCISO SANTIAGO SANTIAGO)

EXPARTE

Civil Núm.: TO2025CV00630. Sala: 500. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACION POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARGARITA NEGRÓN SANTIAGO (SE DESCONOCE DIRECCIÓN).

JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO, LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS

A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN

SOLICITADA Y CUYO PARADERO SE DESCONOCE AL TIEMPO DE HACERLE LA PRIMERA PUBLICACIÓN DE EDICTO.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Petición, en el caso de epígrafe. En este caso la parte Peticionaria ha radicado una Petición para que se autorice la inmatriculación la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: “Parcela de terreno número dos (2) localizada en la carretera ciento sesenta y cinco (165), kilometro tres punto cuatro (3.4) del Barrio Quebrada Cruz del Término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial QUINIENTOS TREINTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS CON SETENTA Y SIETE CENTIMOS DE OTRO (539.77 mc) y en lindes por el NORTE con el solar numero uno (1), propiedad de Margarita Negrón Santiago, por el SUR con el Solar tres (3) y por el ESTE, con la carretera estatal ciento sesenta y cinco (165)y por el OESTE con Ramón Rodríguez.” La parte Peticionaria alega que la propiedad adquirida por el causante NARCI-

SO SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ casado con Flavia Dolores Torres Martínez, mayor de edad, soltera por viudez, retirada y residente de New York de los Estados Unidos de América, por lo que ésta es dueña del 50% de la propiedad, mediante la escritura 12, otorgada el 29 de marzo del 2003, ante Notario Público Ángel L. Rivera Apontey donde se hace constar no está inscrita en Registro de la Propiedad. Alega que ellos y sus anteriores dueños han poseído dicho inmueble quieta, pública y pacíficamente, con justo título, de buena fe, ejerciendo sobre el mismo los derechos y cumpliendo las obligaciones de verdaderos dueños, sin interrupción alguna por más de 30 años, según más detalladamente consta en la Petición radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de un derecho propietario y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico, y se advierte que en el plazo improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del mismo, los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados, podrán comparecer al Tribunal a fin de alegar lo que en derecho proceda. Dicha alegación debe ser notificada al Honorable Tribunal y la Lcda. Saideth Cristobal Martínez, PO Box 9022173, San Juan, PR 00902-2173 ; Tel. (787) 3670412, dentro del término indicado, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Petición sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de octubre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN M. PINTADO, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN EL GOBIERNO MUNICIPAL AUTÓNOMO DE SAN JUAN, REPRESENTADO POR SU HONORABLE ALCALDE, MIGUEL ROMERO LUGO

Parte Peticionaria Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 318.4207 METROS CUADRADOS

LOCALIZADA UBICADA EN LA URBANIZACIÓN

VILLA PRADES, CALLE JULIO ANDINO 714, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00924. SOLAR MARCADO CON EL #21 DEL BLOQUE M DE LA URBANIZACIÓN BUENOS AIRES, SITIO SÁBANA LLANA DEL BARRIO DE RÍO PIEDRAS; RITA RAMOS ACEVEDO Y RAMON ACEVEDO ALVARADO, CADA UNO POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; BANCO DE SAN JUAN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV06382. Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RITA RAMOS ACEVEDO Y RAMÓN ACEVEDO ALVARADO, CADA UNO POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; BANCO DE SAN JUAN; LOS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE RITA RAMOS ACEVEDO Y RAMÓN ACEVEDO ALVARADO, COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL.

RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a tı́tulo absoluto de la propiedad 325 metros cuadrados localizada ubicada en la Urbanización Villa Prades, Calle Julio Andino 714, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00924. Solar marcado con el #21 del Bloque M de la Urbanización Buenos Aires, sitio Sábana Llana del Barrio de Río Piedras, para eliminar un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO

EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN:

URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero 21 del Bloque M de la Urbanización Buenos Aires, sitio Sabana Llana del Barrio de Rio Piedras de la ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de 325.00 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el Norte, en 13.00

metros, con Calle Principal Sabana Llana número 3; por el Sur, en 13.00 metros, con terrenos de Edelmiro Martinez Rivera; por el Este, en 25.00 metros, con solar número 22 del bloque M de la Urbanización; y por el Oeste, en 25.00 metros, con solar número 20 del bloque M de la Urbanización. Finca Número 1,365, Folio 216, Tomo 32 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. (Número catastral de la propiedad según el CRIM: 063-097-078-21. ENTIDAD

EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 2021-2022 y la Resolución Núm. 66, Serie 2024-2025 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. La abogada de la parte demandante es el Lcda. Angelisse Ortiz Cruz cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: lcda. angelisseortiz@gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírlos. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025

A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puer-

to Rico, a 9 de septiembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN E. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DENISSE ORUBIS PEROCIER MORALES

Peticionaria EX PARTE

Caso Núm.: SS2025CV00639. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDETE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: Personas ignoradas o desconocidas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción del dominio a favor de la parte peticionaria en el Registro de la Propiedad de la finca que más adelante se describirá y a toda persona en general que con derecho para ello desee oponerse a este expediente; POR LA PRESENTE, Se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción lo entiende procedente. RUSTICA: Sita en el barrio Saltos de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico compuesta de SETECIENTOS OCHENTA Y CINCO PUNTO CERO SESENTA Y SEIS (785.066) METROS CUADRADOS, en lindes

por el NORTE, con la finca principal antes y hoy María Cruz; por el SUR, Celestino Arocho; por ESTE, con Celestino Arocho separado con franja de uso público y la Carretera Cuatrocientos Cuarenta y Cinco (445); por el ESTE, con parcela segregada vendida a Florentino Perocier; y al OESTE, con Pablo Arocho. Contiene una casa de hormigón destinada a vivienda. Que, según Certificación de Mensura y plano de mensura realizados por el Agrimensor Dennis Omar Vargas González, con número de licencia 21,581, la descripción de LA PROPIEDAD luego de practicada la mesura es la siguiente: RUSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #445 KM 4.4 en el Barrio Saltos en el Municipio de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Identificado en el plano con Solar uno (1), con una cabida superficial de OCHOCIENTOS SETENTA Y DOS PUNTO QUINIENTOS VEINTIDOS (872.522) metros cuadrados. En lindes al NORTE, con Beatriz Perocier; al SUR con Carretera Estatal PR-445; al ESTE con Florentín Perocier; y al OESTE, con Luz Plaza. Contiene una casa de hormigón destinada a vivienda. Esta Propiedad no consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. Número de catastro 071-079-192-05-001. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es la Lcda. Marggie Rodríguez Pérez, RUA 20,2363, 182 Calle Ramón Emeterio Betances, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; Tel. (787)265-1111; e-mail: mrplawoffices@gmail.com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 22 DE MAYO DE 2026 A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará con letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas conforme a los dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 9 de octubre de 2025. Sarahí Reyes Pérez,

Secretaria Regional. Arlene Guzmán Pabón, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.LEGAL NOTICE

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CARMEN KATIRIA GONZÁLEZ MELÉNDEZ Y SU ESPOSO ÁNGEL DONALDO RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA

Peticionarios

EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: AR2025CV01794. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. COD. #193-000-00128-000. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: A LOS INMEDIATOS ANTERIORES DUEÑOS, A SUS HEREDEROS Y/O CAUSAHABIENTES, SUCN. BERNARDO MELÉNDEZ Y SUCN. ROSENDA SANTOS, SUS HEREDEROS Y/O CAUSAHABIENTES, Y A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS CON INTERÉS.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente arriba mencionado, con el fin de justificar e inscribir a favor de los promoventes el dominio que tiene sobre las siguientes fincas: A. RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio Pasto de Morovis, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de DOS MIL OCHENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO TRES MIL QUINIENTOS DOS METROS CUADRADOS (2,084.3502 m.c.), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO CINCO MIL TRESCIENTOS TRES CUERDAS (0.5303 cdas.); y en lindes por el Norte, con Carretera Municipal; por el Sur, con propiedad de Ana Mirta Otero Ortiz; por el Este, con propiedad de Luis R. Martínez; y por el Oeste, con propiedad de Ana Mirta Otero Ortiz. B. RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio Pasto de Morovis, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de SEISCIENTOS METROS CUADRADOS (600.00 m.c.), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO MIL QUINIENTOS VEINTISIETE CUERDAS (0.1527 cdas.); y en lindes por el Norte, con Carretera Municipal y servidumbre de paso; por el Sur, con el Sr. Luis R. Martínez; por el Este, con la Sucn. Bernardo Meléndez y Rosenda Santos; y por el Oes-

te, con el Sr. Luis R. Martínez. Ubica en este solar una estructura de hormigón armado y bloques dedicada para fines residenciales. Afecta a servidumbre de paso a favor de terrenos propiedad de la Sucesión de Bernardo Meléndez cuya área es de dieciocho punto cuatro mil cuatrocientos veintiocho metros cuadrados (18.4428 m.c.). Alegan los promoventes que adquirieron por cesión el solar descrito con la letra “A”, sin tener la descripción del solar, a Don Joel González Meléndez, según surge de Declaración Jurada número 20,778, sobre Contrato de Cesión de Bienes, otorgada en Ciales, Puerto Rico el 31 de diciembre de 2013, ante la Notaria Elaine Santos Negrón, de cuyo documento tienen una fotocopia. Don Joel González Meléndez adquirió dicho terreno por cesión de María Josefa Meléndez Santos, quien era miembro de la Sucesión de Rosenda Santos Santos y Bernardo Meléndez Pagán, quien adquiere por Cesión que le hiciera de dicho terreno su señora madre, la Sra. Rosenda Santos Santos, de forma verbal, quien a su vez adquirió por compra verbal de parte de Don José Pagán Pagán y Bárbara Otero de Pagán, siendo mayores de edad, casados entre sí, propietarios y vecinos de San Juan, Puerto Rio y de Juan Pagán Pagán y Antonia Otero Figueroa, siendo mayores de edad, casados entre sí, propietarios y vecinos de San Juan, Puerto Rico, negocio jurídico que se realizó para el año 1973. Esta descripción del solar descrito con la letra “A” surge de un Plano de Mensura levantado por el Ingeniero José A. Ramos Rivera, licencia #6066 y Certificación de Mensura notarizado el día 13 de octubre de 2023 mediante Affidavit Número 4,846 ante la Notaria Xiomara Enid Ramírez Burgos. Esta propiedad nunca antes había sido mensurada. Los colindantes de la propiedad fueron notificados mediante carta certificada y de forma presencial. Alegan además los peticionarios que adquirieron por compraventa un solar descrito con la letra “B”, a Don Luis R. Martínez Meléndez y Doña Milagros Jiménez Santiago, según surge del documento sobre Documento Privado Compraventa Condicional, otorgado en Arecibo, Puerto Rico el 24 de octubre de 2014, ante el Notario Pedro Jusino Marrero, de cuyo documento tiene una fotocopia. Don Luis R. Martínez Meléndez adquirió dicho terreno por herencia mediante testamento de Doña Rosenda Santos Santos, también conocida como Doña Rosenda Santo

en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen preferente. Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de RG Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por a suma principal de $62,400.00, con intereses al 6.875% anual, vencedero el 1ro. de febrero de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 29, otorgada en Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 30 de enero de 2007, ante la Notario Carmen D. Rivera Fontánez, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Humacao, finca número 28,533, inscripción 2da. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 22 de octubre de 2025. RAQUEL QUIÑONES SOTO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. JOSEFINA RIVERA MIGENES Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AI2025CV00222. (Salón: 003C - LEY 246). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FERNANDO J. GIERBOLINI GONZÁLEZ - FGIERBOLINI@ MSGLAWPR.COM.

A: LOURDES MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA POR

SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE POLICARPIO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA T/C/C

POLICARPO RODRIGUEZ

RIVERA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE POLICARPIO RODRIGUEZ

RIVERA T/C/C POLICARPO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA. DIRECCIÓN:

LOTE D-11, K.M 2.5 CARR. 722 BO. ROBLES Y CUYÓN, AIBONITO, P.R. 00705; LAURA RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA POR

SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE POLICARPIO RODRIGUEZ

RIVERA T/C/C

POLICARPO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA - DIRECCIÓN:

LOTE D-11, K.M 2.5 CARR. 722 BO. ROBLES Y CUYÓN, AIBONITO, P.R. 00705.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de octubre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de octubre de 2025. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 29 de octubre de 2025. MAYRA L. CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA, VANESSA COLÓN SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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EDWIN ADARBERTO RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ

Demandante V. EXPARTE

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AR2025CV01641. (Salón: 402 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: PROCEDIMIENTO ESPECIAL EXPEDITO DE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, REANUDACIÓN DE TRACTO Y USUCAPIÓN (LEY NÚM. 118-2022). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. CAROLINA J. GARRIGA CESANÍ - CGARRIGA@ TITLESECURITYGROUP.COM. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE

SE DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de octubre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de octubre de 2025. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de octubre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE

GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ISABEL APONTE ÁLVAREZ Y OTROS

Demandante V. DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION H/N/C HF MORTGAGE BANKERS Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: FA2025CV00872. (Salón: 302). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. CAMILA NANICHI DEL VALLE MARTÍNEZ - NANICHIDELVALLE@GMAIL.COM

A: DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION H/N/C HF MORTGAGE BANKERS; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE CUAL DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de octubre de 2025, este

Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de octubre de 2025. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de octubre de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. CRISTIAN J. LOPEZ LOPEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CG2025CV00647. (Salón: 701). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.

A: CRISTIAN J LOPEZ LOPEZ - URB VILLA CARIBE 223 VIA CAMPINA, CAGUAS PR 00727-3048; 2001 AVE ANTONIO R BARCELO APT 50, CAYEY PR 007364204.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de octubre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los

10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de octubre de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 28 de octubre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARIEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE SECRETARIO DE VIVIENDAY DESARROLLO URBANO

T/C/C SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Demandante Vs. THE MONEY HOUSE, INC., FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO

Demandados Civil Número.: GY2025CV00204. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, personas desconocidas que se designan con estos nombres ficticios, que pueden ser tenedor o tenedores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez. Se les notifica que en la Demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que el siguiente pagaré hipotecario se encuentra extraviado: El día 29 de enero de 2016 el señor Jose Euricles Figueroa Maldonado formalizó un préstamo revertido, para el cual se emitieron dos (2) pagarés hipotecarios como evidencia del préstamo concedido. Uno de dichos pagarés fue expedido por la suma principal de ciento noventa y seis mil quinientos dólares ($196,500.00) a favor de The Money House, INC., o a su orden, y fue garantizado

por una primera hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 18, otorgada el 29 de enero de 2016 en Ponce, ante el notario público Francisco R. Febus Rivera. Dicha hipoteca consta inscrita al Sistema Karibe, finca número 8285 de Guayanilla, inscripción 4ta. La hipoteca descrita anteriormente fue constituida sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 1 en el plano de mensura para la segregación e inscripción, radicado en el BARRIO SIERRA BAJA del término municipal de Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 3,457.348 metros cuadrados. En linderos: Norte, en una alineación de 98.91 metros, colindante con el remanente de la finca de la cual se segrega según el plano de inscripción; Sur, en una alineación de 89.50 metros, colindante con el remanente de la finca de la cual se segrega; Este, en dos alineaciones de 18.30 metros y 22.14 metros, colindantes con el remanente de la finca; Oeste, en tres alineaciones de 15.81 metros, 13.32 metros y 6.37 metros, colindante con la Carretera Estatal número 378. Edificación: Estructura de dos plantas levantadas en columnas dedicada a vivienda. Construida de concreto armado y bloques y distribuida, en su primer nivel, en área de sala, comedor y cocina. Consta de un baño, cinco cuartos de dormitorios, balcón en forma “L” y marquesina. En los bajos de dicha residencia hay un salón abierto, con un valor de $100,000.00. Catastro #338-000-007-50. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita corresponde a la finca número 8285, la cual consta inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 247 de Guayanilla, en el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda de Ponce. La obligación constituida por el Pagaré extraviado fue satisfecha en su totalidad, por lo que no existe deuda pendiente relacionada al mismo. Sin embargo, dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del Pagaré, el cual no ha podido ser localizado a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. Según consta en el Registro de la Propiedad, el Pagaré fue expedido a favor de The Money House, Inc., o a su orden, El Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano fue el último tenedor conocido del Pagaré antes descrito, por lo que es el acreedor actual. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando El siguiente dirección electró-

nica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Lcda. Pamela Cristal Santiago Olivieri RUA NÚM. 22028

HMB Law Group, LLC 33 Calle Bolivia Suite 201 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00917 Teléfono: 939-759-7668

E-mail: psantiago-olivieri@ hmblawgroup.com psco.law@gmail.com

Expedido, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 14 de octubre de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO GABRIEL ALAN

MALAVOLTI

Demandante V. PLANET HOME LENDING; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA

DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA

CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandados Civil Núm.: VQ2025CV00108. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de LendUS LLC, por la suma

de $288,750.00. Dicho pagaré fue suscrito el día 18 de marzo de 2022, ante el notario Vianice Cruz De Choudens, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura número 80 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Vieques, finca número 4,596, inscripción 3ra. El pagaré fue firmado el 18 de marzo de 2022 por el Sr. Gabriel Malavolti y notarizado por la Lcda. Vianice Cruz De Choudens, testimonio número 6,724. Se describe la propiedad a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 33 de la Urbanización Santa María Grazing Area, Comunidad Villa Borinquen, localizado en el Barrio Puerto Ferro del término municipal de Vieques, con un área de mil ciento setenta y uno punto cero cero nueve (1171.009) metros cuadrados, igual a a 0.2979 cuerdas. En lindes: por el NORTE, con la calle número 2, con una distancia de 22.329 metros lineales; por el SUR, con el solar número 35, con una distancia de 35.565 metros lineales; por el ESTE, con el solar número 34, con una distancia de 41.912 metros lineales; y por el OESTE, con el solar número 30 con una distancia de 41.912 metros lineales. Property number 4,596, recorded at page 199 of volume 99 of Vieques, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Fajardo. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notifique con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Zilmarie Delgado Pieras, 33 Calle Resolución, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 7826500, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de octubre de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. MIRIAM L. PENZORT MERCADO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Martínez, Torres lead Moca to Game 1 win in BSNF finals

By THE STAR STAFF

The Explosivas of Moca defeated the Atenienses of Manatí 72-53 on Tuesday night in the first game of the 2025 Women’s Superior National Basketball League (BSNF by its initials in Spanish) finals at Dr. Juan A. Sánchez Acevedo Coliseum in Moca.

Hillary Martínez led the offense with 22 points, while Ashley Torres recorded a double-double with 18 points and 12 rebounds. Leigha Brown added 13 points and Taya Corosdale contributed 12, in a night of total domination by the Explosivas.

Kaela Hilaire led the way for the Atenienses with 17 points, followed by veteran Pamela Rosado with 10.

Xiomara Ortiz was named match MVP as the Lady Sharks of Aguadilla beat the Criollas of Caguas in straight sets and qualified for the COPUVO postseason tournament.

Manatí opened the game with a 12-2 run capped by a free throw by Hilaire with 5:45 left in the first quarter. However, Moca responded with a 15-2 run of its own fueled by eight points from Martínez and six from Torres, to take a 17-14 lead at the end of the first frame.

The game remained close until halftime, tied at 32. But not long into the third quarter the Explosivas scored 11 consecutive points, capped by a three-pointer from Corosdale that gave them a 43-32 lead with 7:23 left in the period. Moca led 57-46 at the end of the quarter and never looked back.

In the final stretch, a free throw by Brown extended the lead to 22 points, 72-50, with 1:45 remaining, confirming the home team’s dominance in the opener of the best-of-seven series.

COPUVO

By THE STAR STAFF

Tpostseason begins today

he Puerto Rican Volleyball Confederation (COPUVO by its acronym in Spanish) announced on Wednesday that the postseason tournament will begin today with the quarterfinals.

Eight teams advanced to the playoffs, while the Criollas of Caguas and Llaneras of Toa Baja were eliminated from postseason contention.

The unbeaten Cangrejeras of Santurce (40 points, 12-0) topped the overall standings, followed by the Amazonas of Trujillo Alto (33 points, 9-3) and the Bravas of Cidra (30 points, 8-4).

From fourth to sixth place were the Big Sisters of Carolina (24 points, 8-4), the Vaqueras of Bayamón (24 points, 7-5), and the Volley Girls of Guayanilla (21 points, 6-6).

The last two franchises to secure their spots were the Lady Sharks of Aguadilla and Las de la Mancha of Corozal.

Aguadilla clinched their qualification on Tuesday by defeating the Criollas in straight sets, 25-20, 25-9 and 25-15, in a match in which Xiomara Ortiz was named Most Valuable Player. With the victory, the Lady Sharks finished with 14 points and a 4-8 record.

Meanwhile, Corozal defeated Guayanilla in four sets (25-21, 21-25, 25-20 and 27-25) at Raúl “Americano” Hernández Sports School. Middle blocker Jenselyn Morales was a key figure in the victory for Las de la Mancha, while Gabriela García stood out for the Volley Girls. With 12 points and a 4-8 record, Corozal secured the eighth and final qualifying spot.

The quarterfinal series, to be played in best-of-three format, will conclude on Sunday.

PR drops opener to high-powered US at NORCECA U-17 Championship

By THE STAR STAFF

Although the score heavily favored the United States in the opening match of the 2025 NORCECA Women’s U-17 Continental Championship, Puerto Rico’s fighting spirit was evident at the National Gymnasium in San José, Costa Rica on Tuesday.

The Americans defeated Puerto Rico 3-0 (25-13, 25-17 and 25-15) in the Group B opener, but the Boricuas’ combative spirit left its mark on the court.

Puerto Rico captain Anabella Valentín was clear in her assessment of the match.

“The game was very tough. The United States is definitely a very talented team; their players will go very far if they continue playing volleyball,” she said. “I am proud of

my team; we always fight, we try to do our best, and we will play even harder in the next match.”

That commitment and determination characterized Puerto Rico’s attitude throughout the match, despite the opponent’s superior technique. The United States dominated in the fundamentals: attacks (28-24), blocks (7-2), and aces (8-0), in addition to capitalizing on 32 unforced errors from the island team.

The American offense was led by Maya Ogbogu with 14 points and Lexi Coleman with 10, while for Puerto Rico, Anna Aquino stood out with 9 points.

The tournament serves as a qualifier for the 2026 FIVB (International Volleyball Federation) Under-17 World Championship. On Wedneday, Puerto Rico was scheduled to play Cuba, while the United States was to face Mexico.

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